Re: [PATCH v2 47/48] ARM: tegra: ventana: Support CPU voltage scaling and thermal throttling

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Thu Dec 17 2020 - 15:30:16 EST


17.12.2020 22:36, Daniel Lezcano пишет:
>>>> + type = "critical";
>>>> + };
>>>> + };
>>>> +
>>>> + cooling-maps {
>>>> + map0 {
>>>> + trip = <&trip0>;
>>>> + cooling-device = <&cpu0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
>>> You should add all CPUs here.
>>
>> All CPU cores are coupled on Tegra in regards to CPUFreq, hence I think
>> it won't make any difference if secondary CPU cores will be added here,
>> isn't it?
> The explanation is in the description of commit ef4734500407ce4d

I think that really only makes sense if CPU cores have independent clock
rate management. IIRC, I actually made some research about this in the
past and intentionally removed the secondary cores from the
cooling-device since they didn't make any difference for a coupled CPU
cores.

That commit also says:

"But as soon as this CPU ordering changes and any other CPU is used to
bring up the cooling device, we will start seeing failures."

I don't quite understand to what "failures" that commit referrers. I
tried to change the cpu0 to cpu1 in the cooling-device and don't see any
failures. Could you please clarify this?

In general it should be fine to add all the cores to the cooling-device
and I'll do it in v3, but I want to make it clear why this is needed.